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A.O. Scott, New York Times: This is not a movie that lets go of you easily. Read more
David Edelstein, New York Magazine/Vulture: Bizarre to the point of trippiness, yet it's one of the most lucid portraits of evil I've ever seen. Read more
Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal: [It] may be one of the most horrifying films you'll ever see, and one of the most edifying. Read more
Tom Keogh, Seattle Times: A horrifying yet mesmerizing work, "The Act of Killing" instructively meanders at times as in a Werner Herzog film. Read more
James Rocchi, MSN Movies: "The Act of Killing" is disquieting, uncomfortable ... and riveting." Read more
Peter Debruge, Variety: A blood-boiling look at a crime whose perpetrators remain national heroes in their native Indonesia. Read more
Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, AV Club: By tackling one man's sense of right and wrong (or lack thereof), Oppenheimer is ultimately tackling human nature. Read more
Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic: It's a film that is absolutely hard to watch. It's also a film that absolutely should be seen. Read more
Janice Page, Boston Globe: I can't be more direct. "The Act of Killing" is one of the most extraordinary films you'll ever encounter, not to mention one of the craziest filmmaking concepts anywhere, and that includes the whole Bollywood thing. Read more
J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader: [A] unique and unforgettable documentary. Read more
Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor: Oppenheimer allows murderous thugs free rein to preen their atrocities, and then fobs it all off as some kind of exalted art thing. This is more than an aesthetic crime; it's a moral crime. Read more
Tom Long, Detroit News: The acts it describes are shocking, the world it shows is shocking and the filmmaking itself is shocking. This is not a film easily forgotten. Read more
Cary Darling, Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com: Directors Joshua Oppenheimer and Christine Cynn have created something extraordinary in The Act of Killing, the much-talked-about documentary about torture and murder during the Indonesian dictatorship of the '60s and '70s. Read more
Stephen Dalton, Hollywood Reporter: Crime but no punishment in remarkably revealing film about Indonesian death squads. Read more
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: It's a mind-bending film, devastating and disorienting, that disturbs us in ways we're not used to being disturbed ... Read more
Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald: In The Act of Killing, director Joshua Oppenheimer pulls off the impossible: He confronts great, incomprehensible evil and puts a human face on it. Read more
Laura Bennett, The New Republic: Better characters could hardly have been invented. Read more
Stanley Kauffmann, The New Republic: I certainly do not move that the film should be suppressed, only that one should know what it is. It is a bath in a smiling madness. Read more
Rafer Guzman, Newsday: "The Act of Killing" works on so many levels -- psychodrama, horror movie, Orwellian nightmare, Poe story -- that sifting through your reactions could take days. Read more
Anthony Lane, New Yorker: There are good reasons to see The Act of Killing, a new documentary directed by Joshua Oppenheimer, but pleasure is not among them. Read more
Joe Neumaier, New York Daily News: This chilling documentary, executive produced by Werner Herzog and Errol Morris, has a twisted but illuminating point of entry. Read more
Farran Smith Nehme, New York Post: The cumulative impact is devastating, and very far from a simple Western condemnation of another country's brutality. Read more
Michael Sragow, Orange County Register: This riveting documentary about political mass murder in Indonesia incorporates the killers' own movie fantasies about their massacres and deepens our understanding of the fascist brain. Read more
Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer: It is utterly chilling. Read more
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: Joshua Oppenheimer's documentary interviews leaders of Indonesian death squads responsible for deaths of millions & has them re-enact the killings. The combination of drama therapy and accidental self-exposure - utterly bizarre, unexpected and valuable. Read more
Dana Stevens, Slate: Among the most profound, formally complex, and emotionally overpowering documentaries I've ever seen. Read more
Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune: What Oppenheimer is after is a parallel story, a glimpse into the minds of men who can recount mass killings and think "Those were the days." Read more
Bill Stamets, Chicago Sun-Times: This stunning "documentary of the imagination" shows Anwar and other thugs staging scenes of torture and murder for the camera. Read more
J. Hoberman, Tablet: Once you grasp just what is being enacted on the screen, The Act of Killing becomes something like a candy-colored moral migraine. An existential nausea is inevitable. Read more
James Adams, Globe and Mail: Bizarre, hypnotic, audacious. Read more
Linda Barnard, Toronto Star: It will leave you breathless. Read more
Keith Uhlich, Time Out: The emotional places this troubling movie takes him to are rewardingly primal and potent, forcing both subject and viewer to wrestle with internal demons. Read more
Nick Schager, Village Voice: A supreme testament to the cinema's capacity for inquiry, confrontation, and remembrance. Read more
Ann Hornaday, Washington Post: Whatever you call it, The Act of Killing is a must-see. Read more